Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD…Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God… – 1 Chronicles 22:14,19
What I have to say here is this: DAVID’S WORK FITS ON TO THE WORK OF ANOTHER. That should be a great joy to some of you who do not see much coming of what you are doing. Your work is going to fit on to somebody else’s work. This is the order of God’s providence for His Church. It does not happen that He gives a whole piece of work to one man; but He seems to say to him, “You go and do so much; then I will send somebody else to do the rest.” How this ought to cheer some of you up, the thought that your work may be no failure, though in itself it may seem to be so, because it fits on to the work of somebody else who is coming after you, and so it will be very far from a failure! You have sometimes seen a man take a contract to put in the foundations of a house, and to carry it up to a certain height. He has done that; he will not be the builder of that house; that will be the work of the next contractor, who carries up the walls, and puts on the roof, and so forth. Yes, but he who did the foundation-work did a great deal, and he is as much the builder of the house as the man who carries up the walls. So, if you go to a country town or village, and you preach the gospel to a few poor folk, you may never have seemed very successful; but you have been preparing the way for somebody else who is coming after you.
You will notice how one shall do his work, which shall be necessary to some larger work that somebody else will do after him. This is God’s way, so that the second man, the Solomon coming after David, may do his work all the better because of what his father has done before him…I daresay that Solomon often thought gratefully of his father David, and what he had done; and you and I, if God blesses us, ought always to think with thanksgiving of the Davids who went before us. It is the way of God in providence to set one man to do part of a work which pieces on to that of another man. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
https://www.blueletterbible.org/comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/2261.cfm
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I can not help but think also of the failure of Solomon who followed David. He built the Temple, but he did damage to his nation and following his reign it was divided and David’s line was left with only two tribes. Solomon as great as were his blessings were still he brought in other gods through the persons to whom he gave privileges.
We are not unlike those days in this country. God has allowed over us a leader who is profane. Will we hear God speaking to us? Love your posts.
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I love your comments, Jerry. Well said. Whenever I hear someone say, “God bless America!” I say, “America, bless God!” I believe our nation has “jumped the shark” with God, by breaking the marriage covenant. We legalize and minimize the things God hates as though there is no God to answer to. I pray for our nation to turn around but yet I pray for His mercy as He pours out His wrath on our unrepentant nation.
God bless you, Jerry, amen!
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Amen Sister
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